Four men in uniform and two women, World's Fair, Chicago, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Four men in uniform and two women, World's Fair, Chicago, 1934

Date Created

1934

Date

1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, January 1, 1938, Mad Pirate Terror Reign on Yacht Told, Harrowed Survivors Recount Killing of Faulding and Morgan. Mutinous murder and a piratical five-day reign of terror on the high seas aboard the blood-soaked pleasure schooner Aafje were disclosed by harrowed survivors … stories of the death of Dwight L. Faulding, Santa Barbara hotel man and owner of the craft, shot by Jack Morgan, crazed houseboy and seaman. Morgan was later clubbed to death by two deckhands and his body thrown to the sharks … formal murder charges were filed against Robert Horne and George Spernak, young deckhands … These charges, authories unofficially admitted, are intended as a legal formality. …
Man at left or center possibly 1937 murder victim Dwight Faulding
Photograph of print
Four men in military uniforms, two women in dark dresses, one holding book, all standing, outdoors with building in background

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10253 - Dwight L Faulding [Stamped:] Jan 13 1938
Handwritten at edge of print: Taken at World's Fair, 1934, Elsie & Anne

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)
Faulding, Dwight, 1888-1937

Location

Chicago (Ill.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Government